Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

In the 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves, we have detected hundreds of these waves produced by the ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the detection of two gravitational wave events in October and November of 2024 ...

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the mind-bending idea that black holes might be gateways to other universes — revealing how these cosmic mysteries could connect our reality to something far greater. 🌌 ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...